It was a productive day!

I managed to get this one finished off.

I like the combination of textures as a result of the different quilting patterns.

 The arcs are a little wonky on the outer border, but I can live with it.

 Part of the reason for a speedy finish is the machine sewn binding.  I think it looks pretty good.

As soon as I finished this one, I was right on to quilting the next one.

 This one did say feathers, so I did get to use my Diane Gaudynski style feather plumes on it, as practice for my February 2012 free motion Quilting Challenge.

 I'm liking how it is coming along, too!

 Three corners left to do and then the outer border.

(sorry night time shots, and just a bit of glare trying to emphasize the quilting)

 I was going to echo quilt the background around all the feathers, but I think that will make it too stiff - it is a baby quilt after all, and should be snuggly and cuddly.  We'll see if I decide to do something once the rest is quilted.  Do you suppose tomorrow will be as productive as today?  here's hoping!
Hope you are gaving a good weekend, too!


Happy quilting!

Making slow progress

Work has been really busy this last little while, and I've not had a lot of energy to get much done in the evenings, but I am making some progress, albeit, slow!
I have finished the feathers on my Coin quilt (see earlier blog here) and am working on the big scale cross hatching of the coins themselves, and some filler quilting around the feathers.  I started working on this at the VMQG Sew-in on Sunday, but it just didn't want to happen - broke a needle, had my smaller sewing bed with me and it has sharper edges, so I kept catching the quilt so it wasn't flowing smoothly, and then I ran out of bobbin thread.  I just took it as a sign to put it away and work on something else!  Here's what it looks like so far - I'm loving the textures on this!

(I did piece a table runner after that, but will post about it later, after I've taken some photographs, as well as my Habitat challenge reveal).

Last night I did get some quilting done and managed to finish all the quilting on my African Collage.  After keeping pretty much to just outline stitching and stitch in the ditch in the centre, I wanted to do something more interesting in the borders.  See the frame that surrounds each of the animals?

I used that as my inspiration and had a lot of fun with it, doing a whole slew of different free motion quilted designs.  It doesn't show much from the front, as the black on black print pretty much hides it all,

but I do like how it looks from the back!

Here's what all the quilting looks like from the back

I just need to bury a few more threads, bind it and add the beads down the side, and then I can call it done!

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ The Needle & Thread Network

Happy quilting!

Another happy day of sewing!

Yesterday was a Blue Mountain Quilters Guild drop in day, and I had another productive day of sewing and chatting!
My goal for the day was to get a backing pieced for a quilt I started about a year ago, get it sandwiched and the quilting started.


Success on all counts!

The back 

the quilting is started

going round the bend

Loving it so far!

Happy quilting!
Janet